Floyd County Special Students Summer Program

It is a program for Floyd County high school-age students with special needs.Our goal is to help students develop social and life skills throughout the summer.

FCSSSP Board Members:
Samantha Harrell, President
Liz Fitzwater, Vice President
Alisha Duvall, Public Relations Director
Ally Hines, Treasurer
Tabitha Foster, Secretary
Foster Lucas, Activities Director
Molly Chroneos, Fundraising Coordinator
Hanna Lohmeyer, Volunteer Coordinator
Jim Furber, Director of Student Communications
Samantha Davidson, Director of Food

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Location

New Albany

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Telephone

(812) 624-5474

Website

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Address

New Albany, IN
47150

General information

The Floyd County Special Students Summer Program (FCSSSP) was started in 2009 by a group of dedicated high school and college students. We also aim to provide students with educational and recreational outlets, along with long-lasting friendships. We believe that by giving theses students a safe, skill-building program to look forward to throughout the summer, we are giving them hope. We aim to better prepare students for life after high school through education about community resources.

Our program stands firmly behind
the term “persons with disabilities”.
We believe in this terminology be-
cause our students and persons like
our students are persons first. We do
not believe in acknowledging their
disabilities before their being. Our
students are very unique and beauti-
ful people coming from all walks of
life. Their talents include art, music,
drama, reading, math, memorization,
and much more! We see the amazing
potential in each student to foster
their talents and make a comfortable
living in our society. However, we
must recognize that this fostering will
take the combined effort of each stu-
dents’ family, friends, school and
community — and we are right be-
hind each and every one of them!

What We Do
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Our program operated on a 1:1 student
to volunteer ratio last year and will op-
erate on a 1:1 to 1:2 ratio this upcoming
summer, depending on the severity of
each students’ disability. Through this
high ratio, students were able to thor-
oughly work on their social skills, while
developing meaningful relationships with
peers they will see at school and in the
community.

Our program was blessed with the ser-
vice of three health-aids from Indiana
University Southeast this past summer,
and looks forward to their services in
the future.

This past summer, FCSSSP services
were offered free of charge to all stu-
dents. This upcoming summer, the stu-
dent fee will be $30.00 for the entire
summer, but scholarships will be re-
warded as necessary.

Places we visited last year: the YMCA,
the Carnegie Center, the Falls of the
Ohio, the Louisville Science Center,
Tarc Bus, Rauch Industries, Rauch Plane-
tarium, the Speed Art Museum, the
NAFC library, and the NAFC Police &
Fire Departments.